paumer
\po.me\
The verdict
“paumer” is uncommon French (frequency #97,262 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,262
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Perdre, égarer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-paumer · paumer · French
paumer · rank #97,262 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,262
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH payements
Nearest frequency peer: payements (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « paumer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pariétale
pariétale
2,743 corpus weight
- paroliers
paroliers
2,742 corpus weight
- passengers
passengers
2,741 corpus weight
- paumer
paumer
2,739 corpus weight
- payements
payements
2,738 corpus weight
- peignée
peignée
2,735 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « paumer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | paumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \po.me\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,262 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « paumer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
paumer is uncommon French at frequency #97,262 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \po.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for paumer, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is paumer, spelled P-A-U-M-E-R.
Definition
- 1Perdre, égarer.
- 2Frapper.
- 3Prendre, attraper, empoigner.
- 4Se perdre, s’égarer.
- 5Perdre à un jeu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how paumer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai encore paumé mon portefeuille.
— J’paumais ma ceinture de flanelle, sergent, dit Simon. Alors… — Ça ne m’étonne pas de vous. Est-ce que les autres l’ont paumée, eux, leur ceinture de flanelle ?
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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